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CU-Boulder students have selected three faculty members to receive 2004 Teaching Recognition Awards for their excellent classroom skills. The recipients are Joseph Berta, instructor of psychology; Cathy Comstock, senior instructor and faculty director of the Farrand Residential Academic Program; and Kenneth Gall, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Comstock also received the award in 1990. The three will be honored during the 74th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony in Old Main Chapel at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5.

Stereotypes, law and literature will be explored at the University of Colorado at Boulder during a free public symposium April 16-18 focusing on The Denver Center Theatre Company production of "The Merchant of Venice," one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays.

One of the world's leading social theorists will give a talk addressing the limitations of American unilateralism, "Reflections on the New Imperialism," at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Thursday, April 8. David Harvey, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the City University of New York, will speak at 5 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 150. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

Several new rock art discoveries by a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher depict mounted warriors, likely Comanche, astride horses clad in leather armor and created around 1700 to 1750, the first such petroglyphs found in the state.

U.S. Geological Survey Director Chip Groat will discuss the agency's 125-year history as one of the world's leading science organizations in an April 8 lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "United States Geological Survey: 125 Years of Science for America" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 1B50. The talk is sponsored by the CU-Boulder Center of the American West and is free and open to the public.

Two University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduate teams have been named Outstanding Winners in the prestigious Mathematical Contest in Modeling sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications. And that's out of only 11 Outstanding Winners named from a field of 742 entering teams.

Memories of concerts, films and events in the storied 51-year history of the student-run University of Colorado at Boulder Program Council will be shared April 2 and April 3 when current and former event organizers gather at the university for a weekend reunion.

Research Associate Hannah Gosnell of the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 7 will lecture on conservationists' efforts to restore and "rewild" the Southern Rockies ecoregion, which includes Colorado's Western Slope and parts of southwestern Wyoming and northwestern New Mexico. "Healing the Southern Rockies Ecoregion: What Will it Take?" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chautauqua Community House at 900 Baseline Road in Boulder. The talk is part of the 2003-04 Chancellor's Community Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

Note to Editors: Members of the press are welcome to attend without charge. To arrange, call Kley Achterhof at (303) 735-5633 or e-mail kley.achterhof@colorado.edu . Examining the financing strategies of Internet and telecommunications startup firms during the boom and bust of the 1990s will be one of several topics addressed in a panel discussion March 30 at CU-Boulder's Fourth Annual Silicon Flatirons Conference on Startup Businesses.

How the Columbine tragedy changed Colorado journalists and their newsrooms will be the topic of an April 1 panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Discussing the story behind the story will be John Temple, editor of the Rocky Mountain News; Michelle Fulcher, former national editor of The Denver Post; and Roger Simpson, director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the University of Washington. The event will be held from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 1, in Eaton Humanities Building room 250.